Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, after encountering an array of difficulties, Minister Kaur announced ruefully that the bead program had failed. Some women discarded the beads as too similar to those worn by cows. Others, from the depths of their faith in the Health Ministry, believed in the beads as a magic charm against conception. One chief trouble, as it turned out, was too many babies who just loved to play with mother's beads and disrupt her calculations...
...bull market reacted with a snort and a charge last week to the cheery news of stock splits and mergers. By week's end it had smashed records across much of the board. On the Dow-Jones averages, industrials zoomed closer to the magic 500 mark, shot up four points to close out the week at 487.45 and an alltime high. After a slow start, railroads picked up 1½ points on the final day to close at 164.28. Only utilities failed to make headway...
...Magic & Machinery. Gunther takes it for granted that Africans are potentially capable of self-government. Stuart Cloete is less optimistic. African Giant shows that Africa's problem is too complex for the simple solution of being for black freedom and against white rule. Cloete stresses the most widely overlooked fact about modern Africa-its emergence from Stone Age savagery straight into Atomic Age civilization. His book-more evocatively written but less well organized than Gunther's-shows the incongruous patterns of overlapping magic and machinery, primitiveness and progress...
Alchemist. In Orlando, Fla., facing a forgery charge for boosting a check, Clarence Hickey, 25, pleaded magic, explained that a fortune teller had sprinkled a pile of white powder on the check which instantly increased its worth from...
...took many forms-the artist v. the bourgeois, the criminal v. society, Nietzsche v. Goethe, disease v. conformity, Asia v. Europe, music v. reason. On one occasion, Mann was able to wed his antitheses into a higher reality. The moment came in the lyric, mysterious "snow scene" in The Magic Mountain, in which substance and accidents, skies and devils dissolve in the "white darkness" of the snow. It was one of the really astounding moments in modern literature, but it passed, and Mann was caught once again in the tension of opposites...